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3.00 Credits
3 hours An intermediate design studio course focusing on scenery, costume and lighting design for the theatre. Students will design the visual world of a number of moderate size dramas, comedies or musicals from contemporary and historical periods, creating standard designer communication documents including sketches, renderings and drafting. The course also emphasizes script analysis and visual research in the design process. Students will assemble a portfolio documenting their designs. Prerequisite: Theatre 88.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours An advanced design studio course focusing on scenery, costume and lighting design for the theatre. Students will design the visual world of a number of multi-act dramas, comedies or musicals from contemporary and historical periods, creating standard designer communication documents including sketches, renderings, a scale model and drafting. Additionally, students will work collaboratively with an advanced student director to design one or more elements of a realized production. The course emphasizes script analysis, visual research in the design process and designer/director communication. Students will assemble a portfolio documenting their designs. Prerequisite: Theatre 180.
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
0, 1, or 2 hours Students earn credit for learning the fundamentals of production management by working under direct faculty supervision as stage manager, script supervisor, assistant to the director, designer, or choreographer. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1, 2, or 3 hours A topical course designed to investigate any relevant subject matter not included in any of the standard courses. The title, content, and credit will be determined by current mutual interests of students and faculty. Selected topic acting styles courses such as Acting for Musical Theatre, Acting Shakespeare, Acting Chekhov, Acting Coward and Wilde, and Acting Brecht will be offered regularly. Other selected topics courses such as Mask Making, Rendering, Stage Management, Directing for Musical Theatre, Arts Management, and Children's Theatre will be offered based on student interest and demand and faculty expertise. Prerequisite(s): To be determined by the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
2 or 3 hours On-the-job training for theatre arts majors and minors wishing to explore career options prior to their senior year or for students not majoring or minoring in theatre arts who desire experience in theatre arts-related organizations and positions. Students will arrange for their positions according to department guidelines, and each internship will be designed to the satisfaction of the sponsor, faculty coordinator, and student. (Normally offered each fall, spring and summer terms.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours This is a fundamental course in the systematic analysis of dramatic texts. It is designed to equip theatre arts majors and minors with the textual expertise and vocabulary needed for academic discussion and artistic collaboration. Students will read and research a series of scripts in order to investigate the process in which a play develops from page to performance. Emphasis will also be given to how directors, designers, performers, and spectators individually and collaboratively engage with and utilize a dramatic text during each phase of the pre-rehearsal, rehearsal, and performance process. (Normally offered each fall semester.)
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
0, 1, or 2 hours Students earn credit for learning about theatre promotion strategies and activities while working on theatre productions under direct faculty supervision. Public relations, house management, box office management, community outreach, fundraising, and marketing are some of the possibilities for investigation. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours Theatre and Contemporary Culture is a course designed to situate the study and practice of theatre within contemporary cultural contexts. Each course examines a particular cultural issue or condition as it is represented in a number of theories, dramatic works, production methods, theatre enterprises, and broader cultural practices. Topics offered on a rotating basis include: "Multicultural Theatre," "Crosscurrents in Nonwestern and WesternTheatre," "Women and Theatre Across Cultures," an"Performance of Gender." This course may be repeatedfor credit up to 4 times. Individual offerings, however, may not be repeated. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours This is an advanced scene study course that builds upon the skills gained in Acting II and III, and trains students to handle specific acting challenges. Special attention is given to listening and connecting, and playing to win using action-based objectives. Scenes are taken from American post-war classics, the 1960s-70s avant-garde, and contemporary dramatic literature. This course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite(s): Theatre 2, 7, 107, and 157 or permission of instructor. (Normally offered on odd spring semesters.)
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3.00 Credits
See Education 224.
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